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vessel

[ves-uhl] / ˈvɛs əl /




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Navy might have in determining where a vessel is heading before it arrives.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

A fourth vessel, the Madagascar-flagged tanker Murlikishan, meanwhile crossed the strait westward into the Gulf on Tuesday morning through the Larak Island route.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

"They turned it from a transatlantic passenger ship into a high-speed rescue vessel under emergency conditions," he said.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

“From the beginning, the conceit was to summon all the types of experiences of Blackness in one place, the project being a vessel or container for all of that expression,” Halsey says.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

After diving down to the sunken vessel, Throckmorton returned to the surface boat almost as excited as he had been after first investigating the Gelidonya wreck.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler




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